Kate Morrissey

Writer

Kate Morrissey, originally from Atlanta, came to The San Diego Union-Tribune in March 2016. She worked first on the DataWatch team before taking on the immigration beat in August 2016.

She has a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She interned at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered the start of the #FeesMustFall movement.

Before deciding to pursue a career in journalism, she worked at a software company in Wisconsin making electronic medical record programs. She studied Literary Translation at the University of Georgia for her undergraduate degree and is fluent in French.

You can keep up with the latest in immigration news by liking her Facebook page and following her on Twitter.

Recent Articles

Weeks before a 10-state coalition’s deadline for the President to get rid of a program that protects dreamers from deportation, Itzel Guillen struggled to control her nerves as she sat in a car waiting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. Guillen, who first came to the U.S. without authorization...

Immigration courts in San Diego and Imperial counties have sped up processing this year, and immigration attorneys worry that clearing backlogs will lead to deportations of those who have legal grounds to stay. In contrast to what has seemed to be an ever-growing backlog of cases in recent years,...

A San Diego researcher said a recent Breitbart article on Starbucks’ push to hire refugees misused data from his study to promote fear of tuberculosis in the county’s new arrivals. Starbucks held a hiring event last week for refugees in El Cajon as part of the coffee chain’s commitment to hire 10,000...

Some members of San Diego’s Kurdish community will be able to vote in an upcoming referendum that could eventually make Kurdistan a separate country from Iraq. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, who represents the Kurdistan Regional Government in the U.S., explained to a full room in an El Cajon community...

Eleno “Max” Quinteros Jr. of Chula Vista took a plea deal in San Diego’s federal court on Thursday to charges that he made false statements to get green cards for some of his companies’ employees. In the plea agreement, Quinteros, a 45-year-old airline staffing company executive, said he collected...

The U.S. did not respond by last Thursday’s deadline to allegations in a case before an international tribunal that say border officials carried out an extrajudicial killing at San Ysidro’s port of entry. The lawyers and activists who asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to take on...

Haftay Berhe, 34, was a geologist and air scientist for six years in Ethiopia before immigrating to the U.S. in 2015. Now he is a taxi driver. “This is my only choice here,” he said. “For survival, why not? Not as a profession, but just for survival. I’m trying to live with the current situation.”...

Mohamed Hassan was tortured in his home country of Somalia because he loves to dance and sing Michael Jackson songs. He fled to Brazil, and followed a migrant route to the U.S. border that is more than 7,000 miles long. When he made it to Otay Mesa’s port of entry, he asked for asylum. He spent...